mulierose

The mulierose man and he had exchanged hats at the restaurant.

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

There, with his face buried in his hands, seated on a roll of carpeting with a tack hammer and saucer of tacks at his side, sat the mulierose man!

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

With a roar, the mulierose man launched himself at Mr. Middleton, who dexterously stepping aside, had the satisfaction of seeing his assailant slip and fall on the wet sidewalk.

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

At the house whence the mulierose man had issued, a very unprepossessing old woman, with a teapot in her right hand, was opening the front door to admit a large yellow cat whom she addressed as "Mahoney," an appellation which, while not infrequently the family name of persons of Irish birth or descent, is of very seldom application to members of the domestic cat tribe, Felis cattus.

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

The good-looking waitress invited Mr. Middleton to sit at ease by a table in a rear part of the room, where lolling on the opposite side, with charming unconsciousness she let her hand lie stretched more than half across the board, a rampart of crumpled newspapers concealing it from the view of the eighth guest of the mulierose man.

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

Mr. Middleton was at his wit's end to supply a hypothesis to answer why the mulierose man, from being a criminal and object of the lady's just wrath, should suddenly have become an inquisitor, sitting in judgment upon her conduct.

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

To Mr. Middleton's surprise, the lady immediately quieted at the words of the mulierose man and instead of berating him, coughed nervously and hung her head sheepishly.

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

"I haven't," said the mulierose man with the utmost composure.

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

Her voice rose to a shriek, and at the sound a woman's head popped out of the window above and the mulierose man came running to the door.

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

"Well then, dame, mulierose -- that means wrapped up, body and soul, in women.

The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849